- October 11, 2024
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A Palm Coast man was arrested on a DUI manslaughter charge July 14 in connection with a fatal car crash last December.
The Florida Highway Patrol has been investigating the crash over the last eight months.
A judge issued a warrant for the arrest of 64-year-old suspect Joseph Siano on July 13.
Siano's blood alcohol content after the crash was almost three times the legal limit, according to his arrest report.
The crash happened at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 16. Siano was driving a pickup truck north in the southbound lanes on U.S. 1 and collided head-on with a Chevrolet Malibu just north of Whiteview Parkway.
The Malibu driver died at the scene crash site while Siano was taken to Halifax Medical Center with incapacitating injuries, the report said.
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper took a statement and two blood samples from Siano at the hospital. Siano told the trooper that he did not remember anything from the crash and had not consumed any alcohol.
The results from the blood tests came back on Feb. 28 and showed that Siano had a blood alcohol content of 0.219.
